The Log Lane Village Board of Trustees last Wednesday approved purchasing enough ammunition to last the Log Lane Marshal's Office through 2013, according to Marshal Fred Cook.

"We got everything for 2013," Cook told the board at their regular meeting, adding that he was able to get it at the state bid price, which saved the town money. "It should be within what was budgeted."

The town's 2013 budget showed $800 for ammunition, according to Town Clerk Kim Alva.

The board also approved spending $1,000 for two bulletproof vests for the marshal's office.

While the vests each cost nearly that, the town is eligible for a grant to cover the cost of one of the vests, Cook said.

But he explained to the board that he needed to order the two for the about $1,000, but that town would get back about $500 of that from the grant.

The board seemed happy about that news, but they asked whether police dog Opie would also need a vest.

"Opie has one," Cook said. "His are more expensive than ours."

The trustees held off on making a decision about buying new police radios.

Cook reported that he had gotten more information about the radios at a recent sheriffs' convention he attended.

He asked the board to consider ordering the hand-held radio that was in the 2013 budget, but the board wasn't ready to go ahead with that last week.

The issue likely will come up again.

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And the board approved selling three guns owned by the town to a bidder for $700.

The guns, two .40-caliber Glocks and one Ruger of unknown caliber, were surplus town property that the Marshal's Office did not want, according to Cook.

"They're old," he said.

The board decided to accept the bid and sell the guns to the unnamed bidder.

The board also decided not to pay contractor Melanie Summers for hours she said she worked for the town.

The board decided that Summers had not provided satisfactory proof to the town that she had worked the 20 hours she had reported.

She was working for the town on a contract basis going through old marshal's office files and getting them ready for either shredding or electronic input, according to Cook.

"I don't agree with 20 hours," he said.

He explained where the confusion over where the hours came from.

"The day all this started, the computers were down," Cook said. "She asked to take a couple boxes (of files) home. We never saw her again."

Summers, who did come back to see the board at the December meeting and to claim a gun of hers that had been stored at the marshal's office, had claimed that she worked on the files from home and that it took 20 hours of work.

"We're doing that now," Cook said of the continuing filing work. "It doesn't take 20 hours."

Alva confirmed that she had not received any documentation of hours from Summers or Cook.

Trustee Rose Condos asked Town Attorney Carl McGuire what repercussions the town could face for not paying Summers.

McGuire explained that as an independent contractor, it was up to Summers to provide satisfactory proof of having worked for the town.

But he also advised the board that if she did sue the town, the legal fees involved for the town likely would cost more than Summers was claiming to have been owed, which was around $210.

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